Wednesday, April 11, 2007

He doesn't punish men for discipline. He likes to see men crawl.

Why won't Bush sign the Iraq supplemental?The elements of the supplemental of which he disagrees such as the time tables and benchmarks are all non-binding. As our local radio personality Thom Hartman has pointed out on a number of occasions Bush could just sign the bill and then issue a signing statement saying he's ignoring all of that stuff and go on merrily sending our troops into his quagmire without facing a single repercussion for thumbing his nose at congress.So why the veto?

The only two answers I can come up with are politics and his ego. Both are stupid reasons to force a constitutional showdown over non-binding legislation but our President hasn't shown himself at any moment of his life to be a very bright man.

Yeah that's one of those films where I prefer the original. The Bounty with Mel Gibson was good but Laughton was just amazing. I recently watched Jamaica Inn with him as the flopish villain and he ate up every moment he was on screen.

As for showdowns - if we can just get Senators like Leahy and Obama to shut up about capitulation then we might be able to get something done.